Word: yellowing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Such were the Gargantuan interludes which Prince Bismarck could conjure about him like a spell. His wife, Johanna von Puttkamer, was of a milder temper. Yet their daughter got on well with her mother, too. In the Princess Bismarck's absence she presided over the famed Yellow Salon so graciously that a newspaper of the day declared: "She has become a remarkably fine woman, whose wit and intelligence are the theme of general praise...
...Mayor Thomas Stoney of Charleston, the Mayor's wife and ten members of his cabinet journeyed to Chicago to attend the first national Charleston championship contest, and to award the silver loving cups to the winners. The Mayor said that this dance had originated among reveling black bucks and yellow girls, who pranced on spring nights under the white holiday moon along the Charleston waterfront. He asserted loudly that it had reunited forever the nation which was divided when Charleston fired the first shot at Fort Sumter. Having spoken, he sat down. The crowd applauded. A saxophone giggled...
...great yellow curtain dropped on the first act of La Boheme at a special matinee given last week at the Metropolitan Opera House, Manhattan. A very special audience there for a special occasion burst into applause, prolonged it until the only performer left bowing on the stage was pretty, charming Mary Lewis, onetime Ziegfeld Follies girl, appearing for the first time at the Metropolitan as Mimi. Members of the special audience clapped their hands red. Many of them, stationed conveniently in the front of the orchestra in seats warmed these many years by long-nosed subscribers, reached underneath, pulled forth...
...Manhattan, Alexander Stock, concert pianist and accompanist for Metropolitan Opera singers, was riding in a Yellow Taxicab ("COURTESY ? HEATED ? LOWEST RATE" ). The cab swung round a corner with a strain that jerked open a faulty door. Pianist Stock, anxious to save trouble for the blue-jowled and beetling driver, reached forward to close the door. The driver did not turn round. He knew by instinct that his door was open. It always opened when he turned a corner. Without a glance, he flung back his arm, caught the door, and savagely slammed it shut on the little finger...
...soon evident that the hole was cut in one of the upper corners of a chamber of almost unparallelled size. The long yellow shafts of the lights could hardly penetrate the dark to the bottom. Only the glint of gold could be distinguished. A sort of "plank" could be made out across the top of sarcophagus. On the plank was inscribed in golden hieroglyphics, the name "Sneferu...